Twistaray:

Honestly ibadan is big.

clemz88:
[email][/email] I agree that am a flaaaathead and that my generation is cursed forever

Sammyjay4411:
More from Ibadan

afilaka:



I imagine d mega pix on ur camera......it makes al look so gud dan it actually is in real life.dem try sha bt nt as much as ur picture speaks..am currently servin in ibadan n bin 2 80% of al dis places,so we al knw wats-up.

Redman44:
Nice Pictures . However, what we should be talking about is the state of the common man in Oyo State. It is nice to post pictures that will make people assume Ibadan is a Mini-Paradise, but what is the living standard of the average Ibadan resident? Are the homes in Ibadan receiving potable water supply from the Oyo State Water Corporation? Are there good public libraries in the State? Can 85% of Ibadan Residents afford 3 Rich Square meals a day? Are people knowledgeable enough to know how to eat balanced diets on a daily basis? In Europe, even the worst looking houses have access to potable water, electricity and rubbish removal by the local councils. Can we say the same about Ibadan and Oyo State?

How many Ibadan Residents can afford the goods and products being sold in all these malls springing up there? How many Ibadan Residents are earning at least 30,000 Naira per month? What are the statistics of good living in Ibadan? On Healthcare, apart from UCH, how many Ibadan Residents can afford the bills at Hospitals and Clinics in the City?

I believe we need to dwell more on these issues I have mentioned than posting pictures alone. Cheers.

VolvoS60:


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Well said.

I was part of a team on a social project in Ibadan recently. For the sample size, over 95% did not have access to pipe borne water. Wells were the sole water source for these families and contamination from septic tanks was a real and present danger. After going through the expense of building wells at a considerable cost, these families have to abandon these wells once contamination from seepage is suspected or discovered. Not a pleasant experience.

On the same project, over 90% of the households sampled did not have access to modern sanitary toilet facilities. The facilities used by these households are pit latrines and they were in very poor condition. These were things I saw with my own two eyes. One of the team members had trouble with eating after the project - he simply wasn't prepared for the things he saw in the pit latrines on the project.

These pictures of KFC et al just made me smile. The real Ibadan is in places like Kudeti. Mapo. Olopomewa. I can still remember the giant, mutant rats I saw fighting in the open sewers at Kudeti at 10am in the morning . In the same Kudeti, human waste and raw sewage was being emptied into the river/stream (I forget the name) coursing behind the households in the area - the same river water being used for washing, cooking, etc. downstream.

Those behind this thread know how far down on the HDI scale Ibadan is - unless they choose to deceive themselves with these glossy pictures.

OoduaVanguard:


Bull crap. First time I arrived in New York city -- Harlem to be precise -- in the year of our Lord 1992, I saw big-a$$ RATS roaming all over the streams in Harlem. I couldn't believe how ghetto the whole area was. You hardly see such on T.V, not coz it doesn't exist but rather coz they don't highlight it -- the drug-ravaged and extreme poverty of the inner-city America is often hidden from general view.

We've always been hearing about the NEGATIVE sides of Ibadan for donkey years, let's see some aesthetically packaged perspective for A CHANGE! Damn!